Leaves are starting to turn on the trees that turn the earliest. It is the time to pay attention to cherry leaf drop. Indeed, fall is not here, but the weather has turned a corner in Tennessee to cooler nights and mornings. AC is off more than on. Fresh air in the house makes everything fee better. Animals are friskier and garden plants are doing a last push.

Strategically, we are reducing time needed on the homestead to care for things so that one person can more easily manage it.

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Forage

  • Missed my tree shaking
  • Goldenrod is everywhere
  • Nettles are ready for harvest
  • Mints, etc still harvestable
  • Grabbing Yarrow
  • Echinacea Seed collection to start additional patches
  • Chicken of the woods this week

Livestock

  • Baby sheep playing this morning
  • Really close to another round of babies
  • Timing rotation so that the sheep are easy to get to for SRF
  • Starting to rotate goats again when fencing is simplified
  • Deer season is nigh and there are many in the area
  • Time to process rabbits
  • Picking up a rooster or two (Need leg bands to mark them)
  • Time to put on ear tags for the new lambs

Grow

  • Lettuce is up and needs thinning – transplant to the AP system
  • May have enough peppers to do another round of salsa
  • Getting ready to prepare beds for spring planting
  • Preparing bed for garlic
  • Last brussels sprout harvest this weekend
  • Flowers did great this year

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • SRF Stage Assistance
  • Filling in when we are gone
  • The roaster repair

Infrastructure

  • Semi permanent electric fencing to make life easier (Making straight shots)
  • Building a new rabbitry – need to put pine tar on the structural wood (Making a big mess under Tajmaholler

Finances

  • Expensive chicken eggs are night – Today is the earliest day for eggs
  • Tracking system is working well
  • Andy has sheep shares 

Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. It makes a great Christmas Gift!

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Today we talk about choosing freedom, finding the right kind of community, keeping up with life, and setting yourself up to live in a way that is healthy for you with Tag from Life Done Free and John Willis from Special Operations Equipment.

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com VIP Tickets: https://selfreliancefestival.com/tickets/

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Today, we have a hybrid Monday show with an interview with Brian from The Lots Project, Along with our usual Monday Segments!

Featured Event: The Back to the Land Festival, Sept 22-24

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Sponsor 2: Discount Mylar Bags https://bit.ly/43r4dkx 

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • More green beans have come off the garden for processing so I am going for it
  • It is time to shift things around to prepare for incoming meat
  • Crock Pot Beef Ribs
  • Auditing and refilling the pantry medical, staples

Weekly Shopping Report from Joe

We took our usual trip on Saturday. Traffic was a lot heavier than it has been. People’s generally pleasant moods were no different, there were just a lot more of them on the road.

Dollar Tree was first. There have been no significant changes. The one cooler still hasn’t been fixed, but the others have plenty of stock in them. I didn’t see any holes in aisles.

Home Depot was next. A 2x4x8 remains at $3.68. We were able to get two big bags of the detergent Sonia likes; each is good for 132 loads, so with what we still have we’re covered for laundry for probably a year.

Aldi was last. New pallets of flour and sugar were put out not long ago. We found everything else we wanted, although I had to get the 85% cacao chocolate. Staple prices are:

eggs: $1.02 ; milk: $2.78 ; heavy cream: $4.69; OJ: $3.19; butter: $3.19; bacon: $3.99; flour: $2.19; sugar: $3.09; potatoes: $6.29.

A gallon of untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.899.

Frugality Tip from Janet

Parmesan cheese rinds get added to the soup pot for flavoring.

Operation Independence

Focus is on SRF Tickets and Repairs to the Duplex in Nashville to keep finances moving in a positive direction!

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Brian from The Lots Project travels in an rv with his wife and two LARGE dogs. They started their journey seeking a new piece of land and through keeping an open mind and focusing on the characteristics of the life they want have transitioned into the nomad lifestyle. By going minimalist, Brian and Cory have saved enough money to purchase a piece of land and are beginning to build a new dream.

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Here’s a practical meal-in-one dish with a flair. Roast your own peppers or buy a jar to save time. Add a crisp salad and sherbet for dessert if you’re staying home, or take this along to the next summer night potluck.

Flamenco guitar music and castanets are optional. Read more

Today we talk about Managing the homestead while down one person, new infrastructure for the animals, impending birth and more!

  • Featured event: Homesteaders Meetup Sat at 4:30 here – info at LivingFreeinTennessee.com
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Forage

  • Paw paw time

Livestock

  • Bruny is getting close – her udder is growing
  • Time to process another round of rabbits
  • Where to look when the sheep go missing
  • Almost time to integrate smallest ducks which makes management easier

Grow

  • Having trouble getting harvest in while working in Nashville on my duplex
  • Lettuce is germinated just need to keep it going through times of no rain while the plants are small
  • Fall beets look horrible
  • Peppers are slow
  • Storing basil in the kitchen
  • Ginger is up

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Meetup for our local freedom cell on Saturday at 4:30
  • Played a new game – world without Rule of Law

Infrastructure

  • New chicken waterer – Cement tray with water – then put in a 5 gallon bucket, drilled a hole in the side to fill with a hose then turn it upside down. Easier to clean all the parts
  • Installing semi permanent fence through the tree lines in the secondary property. If it works, will do more sections to make rotation easier. _Aluminum wire that will be charged when in us

Finances

  • Tracking is on point – 
  • Focus on rental and home sale

Make it a great week!

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Today we talk about the Berkey Lawsuit with the EPA, Artificial Intelligence, storing medications past their expiration date, chicken water, plants, homestead data management, Self Reliance Festival and business with Jack Spirko and John Willis.

Million Satoshi Give Away Episode Highlight: https://www.livingfreeintennessee.com/2021/12/08/food-freedom-with-billy-bond/

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Winter is coming even though it is not fall. T is stressed out right now. Time to audit infrastructure, water, firewood, feed hay for the sheep and goats, wood chips and more.

Featured event October 16 Chicken Processing: https://selfreliancefestival.com/product/poultry-processing-october-16/

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Forage

  • Shake the Paw Paw Tree
  • Watercress is back
  • Mullein Seeds
  • Oyster mushrooms
  • MInt and other herbs are still with us but the time is soon that a frost will come

Livestock

  • Pregnant Ewe
  • Male sheep are settled here – trying to eat bark of fodder trees
  • Baby Ducks going outside of the chicken tractor for the first time today 
  • Chicken Eggs should start soon
  • Max fd around and found out
  • About time to breed rabbits

Harvest Meals

  • Saute with wild mushrooms
  • Holler Stew 
  • The Pork Tenderloin thing

Grow

  • Lettuce has germinated
  • Fall beets look sad
  • Still getting beans and tomatoes off the garden but they are slowing down
  • First brussels sprouts harvest ever
  • Time to start prepping the garlic patch for the year
  • Peppers are very slow, unlike former years
  • Tomato horn works and other caterpillars have arrived (WHy and what we are doing about it)
  • Planning to just maintain the lettuce patch into the fall as things get super busy here

Holler Neighbors/Community

  • Tested a prepper game: WROL
  • Traded coffee for eggs

Infrastructure

  • Getting ready to work in Nashville on drywall next week we could not find anyone to do work there so it is up to us
  • Staining tajmaholler
  • Rabbit redo starting

Finances

  • Started the new tracking system: meeting post errand run as a policy, spreadsheet, immediate reimbursements. 

Make it a great week!

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Today Nicole Sauce and John Willis welcome Joel Ryals to talk about building on your passion, the rumors of coming shut downs, and more.

Featured Event: SelfRelianceFestival.com

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Make it a great week!

GUYS! Don’t forget about the cookbook, Cook With What You Have by Nicole Sauce and Mama Sauce. 

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Over the weekend, I got y’alls attention with a post about bookkeeping software. And I FIRED QuickBooks Online. Based on your response, I think it is time to have a discussion about the struggles of a creative addressing things in business that are outside our areas of talent and priority. I will share the things I must make myself do and how I handle it. Just because I am not inclined toward a thing does not mean I should ignore it.

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Email feedback to nicole@livingfreeintennessee.com

Livestream Schedule

🎙️ Tuesday at 12:30 pm – Don’t miss the Tuesday Live with Bobby Spags and John Willis. You can also stream it on Odysee, here: https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b

LFTN YT: https://www.youtube.com/@lftn/streams

SOE YT: https://www.youtube.com/@SOEtacticalgear/streams

🎙️ Thursday at 7:30 pm – SRF Live with Toolman Tim! The master of kicking the poverty mindset to the curb will join me. Be sure to tune in for a great show!

You can catch the show:

SRF YT:  https://www.youtube.com/@selfreliancefest

LFTN YT: https://www.youtube.com/@lftn/streams

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🎙️ Friday at 10:30 am – Tune in to the Homestead Happenings Show for all things homesteading. You can also stream it on Odysee, here: https://odysee.com/@livingfree:b

Tales from the Prepper Pantry

  • 64.5 jars of green beans put up
  • 20 jars of salsa
  • Added 8 pints of tomato sauce – tomato sauce shortcut tips
  • The turkey that was rabbit – a recipe
  • Covid shot down rumors, assessing your storage, thoughts on proper reaction to all this noise

Weekly Shopping Report: 8/26/2023

Dollar Tree: One drink cooler is still out of order, but the others are mostly full. There isn’t much Venom left, so I hope they get more, although they do have the brewed tea now. Other stock looks good too, and the store was busy enough that a second line was opened.

Although we skipped Home Depot, I checked online for the price of a 2x4x8, and it remains at $3.68.

Aldi was last. We found most of what we wanted except cherries and dark chocolate; they had other varieties which I skipped. They did have heavy cream back in stock. Staple prices were: milk: $2.78; eggs: $1.06; heavy cream: $4.69; OJ: $3.19; butter: $3.19; bacon: $3.99; sugar: $3.09, and flour: $2.19. I may need to add potatoes; Sonia said this is the first time they were over $6, and they had been under $5 or even under $4.

Untainted regular gasoline remains at $3.899 / gallon. A side effect of having a rental car while ours was in the shop is that I got to discover that the usual corrupted stuff (with ethanol) is $3.399 / gallon.

Frugality Tip from Janet

Save 8-1/2 x 11” sheets of paper (printer mis-prints, etc.) and when you have a large stack of paper, take it to a copy shop and have them turn it into small notepads for you.

Operation Independence

  • Today’s show is all about WHY a creative would invest hours of time in tracking finances and doing other annoying clerical things. It is all about optimizing tax deductions to keep more money in my pocket as well as increasing efficiency in my enterprises so that we are increasingly stable.

Main topic of the Show: Creatives’ Struggles in Business

I struck a chord over the weekend with a post about Quickbooks Online and bookkeeping: I fired QBO. I got more engagement on that post than most over the past few months. People reached out with advice and suggestions. People also reached out saying the want to follow my progress because they have the same problem.

And what is the problem? I am a creative. I think big picture first, then details. If I was going to be screened, I would probably be diagnosed with ADHD and my chosen lifestyle aplifies those characteristics. In fact, they REALLY wanted to diagnose me in the third grade and Mom would not let them. Thank you MAMA SAUCE.

Creative Challenges in Business

  • I know that tracking details gives critical feedback, but I hates it
  • Bookkeeping and tax codes are freaking complex – unnecessarily so – and this impacts tracking systems leading to frustrations
  • The bookkeeping and finance industry has no motivation to make this easy for us
  • High Pressure of doing it wrong: Fines, audits, and jail time OH MY!
  • The challenge of FINISH

Characteristics of creatives:

  1. We thrive when making something – and suffer when tracking things, unless it supports making something
  2. Prone to starting multiple things at one time
  3. Either shift focus often or can only concentrate on one thing (The coming presentation problem)
  4. Prefer operation outside the box, dont really care about rules or procedure

That being said, I know the power of having things tied up, prepared well in advance, finished and tracked from a feedback standpoint. The beauty of being in business is that the money stops when you are not meeting the needs of your customers and that is a pretty instant feedback.

Addressing Creative Challenges in Business

  • I know that tracking details gives critical feedback, but I hates it (Mindset)
  • Bookkeeping and tax codes are freaking complex – unnecessarily so – and this impacts tracking systems leading to frustrations (What I have tried, shortcuts, outsourcing)
  • The bookkeeping and finance industry has no motivation to make this easy for us (Work in advance to simplify your corporate structure)
  • High Pressure of doing it wrong: Fines, audits, and jail time OH MY! (You found your why – don’t let it paralyze you)
  • The challenge of FINISH (#My3Things)

Summary:

  1. Outsource or Hire to your Weakness
  2. Change your perspective: Investing time in tracking is an important tool toward future success and being able to create more
  3. #my3things

So my creative listeners – what do you do to handle your creative challenges in business?

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It’s safe to say that people attending the LFTN Spring Workshop 2022 enjoyed the food as well as the nearly perfect weather. The kitchen crew kept us full and healthy through more than 70 pounds of bacon and 360 eggs, 15 gallons of soup or stew, 6 bus bins of fresh greens, 2½ gallons of salad dressing, and main dishes based on beef, chicken, rabbit, turkey, venison, fish, and pork.

Here are a few of their special recipes.

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